pertwk Chapter 38 The entire Journey to the West team has fallen into depravity! Sun Wukong: Can freeloadin
Chapter 38 The entire Journey to the West team has fallen into depravity! Sun Wukong: Can freeloadin
evening.
Sha Wujing also came over.
After arriving, he didn't waste any time.
Without saying a word, he grabbed a broom.
sweep the floor.
They swept every corner of the yard clean.
Sha Wujing never speaks; that's just his personality.
But he was always the most meticulous when he worked.
Lu Chen watched Sha Wujing sweep the floor and softened, so he brought Sha Wujing a bowl of tea.
"Take a break."
Sha Wujing smiled.
He accepted the tea.
Brother Lu.
"Um."
"I live here too."
Lu Chen was stunned for a moment.
".....OK."
"You live here."
Sha Wujing nodded.
Continue sweeping.
Sun Wukong floated down from the rooftop, scratching his head and speaking.
"Old Sun is sleeping in that shabby tent with Pigsy."
"Did Brother Sha move in today?"
"...Old Sun also wants to move here."
Lu Chen smiled.
"Monkey King, aren't you here every day?"
"That's different," Sun Wukong said matter-of-factly. "Eating during the day and living together at night are two different things."
"..."
"OK."
"If you want to stay, I'll book a room for you."
"Where are the Five Directions Protectors?" Nezha asked from the rooftop.
"..."
Lu Chen, Sun Wukong, Nezha, and the Jade Rabbit were all taken aback.
The Five Directions Protector has been forgotten.
Those five are said to be meditating in some corner.
I've been facing the wall in seclusion for three months now.
No one thought to call them.
Sun Wukong coughed.
"Let them continue facing the wall."
"Old Sun thinks it's quite suitable for them to face the wall."
".....Okay then."
night.
The new courtyard is mostly complete.
The signboard was hung crookedly.
The four characters "Wuwu Mountain Villa" gleamed faintly with gold under the moonlight.
To the east of the courtyard is Pigsy's vegetable garden.
To the west is the Jade Rabbit's flower field.
In the center are a stone table and benches, and a bonfire.
To the north are several adjacent small houses.
Each of the five of them has a room.
The south side was reserved for potential guests.
The third day after the completion of Wuwu Mountain Villa.
An uninvited guest has arrived.
Lu Chen was teaching the Jade Rabbit how to dry fish in the yard.
The Jade Rabbit studied very diligently, flipping the fish three times, and each side turned out equally white.
Lu Chen was about to say a few words of praise.
Valley mouth.
A clear light fell.
A man in a Taoist robe walked in.
Not too fast, not too slow.
No pretense, no concealment.
So we walked into the valley openly and confidently.
He carried a clear and refreshing Taoist aura.
Nezha was doing somersaults at the courtyard gate when he saw this person. He did half of the somersault and ended up hanging upside down on the signboard.
"Brother Lu Chen! Someone's here!"
"From the Taoist sect!"
Lu Chen looked up.
He glanced at the person who had come in.
Laughed.
Lu Chen walked to the courtyard gate and put his hands behind his back.
"Red True Man".
The person paused.
Chi stood three zhang outside the courtyard gate, looking at Lu Chen.
He looked at it for a moment.
拱手。
"Fellow Daoist Lu Chen."
"You've come from afar, sir." Lu Chen smiled. "Would you like to come inside?"
"No need," Chi waved his hand. "This humble Taoist will not enter."
"This humble Taoist has come on the orders of my teacher."
"I'll leave after I finish speaking."
Lu Chen raised an eyebrow.
"Yuanshi Tianzun?"
"Exactly."
Chi cut to the chase without any preamble.
"The teacher asked me to ask you a question."
"Please ask."
Chi stared into Lu Chen's eyes.
"Are you here to mess with Buddhism, Taoism, or the Three Realms?"
The courtyard quieted down for a moment.
Nezha hung upside down on the signboard without making a sound.
The Jade Rabbit stood there, holding a fish that hadn't been dried yet, completely bewildered.
Sun Wukong appeared on the rooftop at some unknown time, listening with a blade of grass in his mouth.
Lu Chen smiled.
"Please convey my message to the Heavenly Venerable."
I'm not going to do either.
"I just want to live a good life."
Chi didn't reply, waiting for what was to come.
"As for me exposing the secrets of Buddhism and the Chan Sect," Lu Chen said slowly, "that's for self-preservation."
"If I didn't reveal it, the Buddhist community would have accepted me long ago."
"I've revealed it; Buddhism is afraid to harm the innocent for fear of harming the innocent."
"I haven't revealed anything about the Taoist sect, have I?"
"Except for the old stories of Manjushri and Samantabhadra, the two old disciples of the Chan Sect."
"That was aimed at Buddhism, not Taoism."
"Can a real person understand?"
Chi pondered for a long time.
Then he slowly nodded.
"I understand."
Chi's tone softened somewhat.
"The teacher asked me to convey another message."
"Please speak."
"We will not get involved in this matter."
Lu Chen nodded.
Expected.
The Taoist sect has always been a spectator.
There's no need to get involved in Buddhist frivolities.
Chi paused for a moment.
"but."
Lu Chen looked at Chi .
"If one day, fellow Daoist..."
"I need a place to stay."
Chi's voice became very serious.
"Our gate."
"Open anytime for fellow Daoists."
The courtyard was quiet for three seconds.
Lu Chen was stunned for a moment.
The meaning of this statement is very clear.
The Chan Sect doesn't care what Lu Chen's background is, whether the speculation that he was possessed by an ancient powerful being is correct, or whether they know Lu Chen's true nature.
The attitude of the Primordial Celestial Venerable was: I'll leave a door open for you.
You don't need to choose immediately.
But the door remained open.
You can come in whenever you need it.
This is the method of a cunning old fox at the Three Pure Ones level.
The Buddhist community regarded Lu Chen as an enemy.
The Taoist sect considered Lu Chen as a potential candidate.
The difference between the two approaches is obvious.
Lu Chen smiled.
"Please thank the Heavenly Venerable for me."
I don't need it for now.
"I understand." Chi did not linger, cupped his hands in a salute, and said, "Take care, fellow Daoist."
He turned around in red.
gone.
They walked at the same leisurely pace as they came.
With a flash of light, the figure disappeared at the mouth of the valley.
yard.
Nezha jumped down from the signboard.
"Brother Lu Chen, who is this guy?"
"One of the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect," Lu Chen said. "A disciple of Yuanshi Tianzun."
"Then what's he doing here?"
"Come see me on behalf of his master."
"Have you finished watching?"
"They left a door open for me after I finished reading it."
Nezha tilted his head and thought for a moment.
"Leave the door open? What does that mean?"
The Jade Rabbit understood.
Holding the half-dried fish, he said softly.
"Brother Lu Chen, is the Daoist sect trying to win you over?"
Lu Chen sat back down on the stone stool at the entrance of the courtyard.
"It's not about winning them over."
"It's leaving me a way out."
"Those old men from the Taoist sect."
They're all very shrewd.
on the roof.
The blade of grass that Sun Wukong was holding in his mouth was replaced with a new one.
He grinned.
"Old Sun, I told you so."
"Those old guys from the Taoist sect."
"I never do business at a loss."
"They left the door open for you."
"I'm betting that you'll be useful in the future."
"What if you one day completely break with Buddhism?"
"The Taoist sect will have one more person like you."
"Just one more card."
Lu Chen nodded.
"Brother Monkey, you're getting smarter and smarter."
"Old Sun has always been smart," Sun Wukong said, rolling over on the rooftop in dissatisfaction. "It's just that I was too lazy to think before."
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Lingshan.
Side hall.
King Puji sat alone.
The progress book of the pilgrimage in front of him was flipped through over and over again.
With each page turned, King Puji's brow furrowed deeper.
The main hall is only half-finished.
The character "turtle" on the lotus pedestal is still there.
Even the gold-threaded cushion was replaced, but the word reappeared on the new cushion.
Nobody knows how it appeared.
King Puji suspected that this thing was no longer written on the mat, but on the foundation of Mount Ling.
He chose to stop interfering in the matter.
In any case, Buddha himself has not made a statement.
He doesn't care about anything.